News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-13
Manchester, N. n.
ITS RAPID GROwTH-wONDER
IMPROVEMENTS ETC.

MANCHESTER, n. H., Oct, 1887.
Messrs Editors Perhaps you would
like to see a little of this city and state
through eyes familiar with it, but absent
for the past year and therefore interested
in noting changes.
There is noticeable the same push and
energy as of old, apparently IN an in
creased degree. New buildings going
up in various quarters particularly in
West Manchester and Herzegovina
which last suburb is having quite boom
h the ea xes16 d t Of the Street rairoad to
that section across McGregOr bridge.
Within year the street railroad has
been extended on Elm Street to the in
tersectiOn of Baker Street south, and up
Park Street to Hallville, or. as they now
call it, East Manchester. These extern
sions give the city fine system of rail-
ways, being all under one control, and a
single fare of five cents good over the
main line and any of the branches.
The AmoSkeag Manufacturing Co..
has its new mill, The Jefferson, COM
pleted and fully occupied, principally
for carding and spinning. Though there
are over goo looms in it, the company
is still unable to manufacture sufficient
vain for its use and a portion of its
looms have been idle for the past week
on that account.
The Manchester Mills are as busy as
usual and are making some repairs
among them new smoke stack. Not
with standing the great water power
here, all the mills are provided with
auxiliary steam power, and the limit has
been nearly reached of the water supply
of the canal and if much additional
power is required it must be supplied by
steam until some one can make wheels
which will utilize a greater percentage
of water used.
The water supply this year has been
very abundant, rains having been fire.
quent and heavy, and the country shows
a marked contrast in its fresh and green
appearance to former years when the
drOuth was severe.
The excitement is general over the
railroad question, and the feeling of the
people pretty fairly shown by the votes
of their Representatives for the Hazen
bill, which vote was, ayes, 20, and nays,
s. Manchester is evidently in favor of
the Boston & Maine.
The West Manchester Congregational
church is being extensively repaired and
doubled. OF this church, Rev. E. G..
Crane is pastor.
Political fires always burn fiercely in
the Granite State, and the premonitory
rumblings of the great contest of 1888
are already heard and the opinion is
freely expressed that the Reverend Con-
gresham from this district will then be
elected to stay at home. While parties
are divided on the railroad question, the
Republicans are earnest and united and
only hope the best candidates NAV be
nominated and they will receive their
united support. There is an apparent
growing dlsaffection in the Democratic
ranks, especially among the voters from
the = Green ISle,'' and the converts make
good workers, too. How any citizen of
Manchester, which, substantially, lives
OFF its manufacturers can be free trade
Democrat is more than l can see. Yet
great is the mystery of political action
particularly among those most vitality
interested, 4. e., labOrerS, and on the
questions of protection or free trade.
The liquor traffic holds its own here as
it is pretty sure to do in city so largely
peOpled with those of foreign birth; and
while the saloons prosper, their patrons
grumble about hard times " and low
wages. The judge of the police court
told me the other day that ninety per
cent of the criminal cases brought before
him came there on account of intemper-
ance. 1t seems to me that every minis
ter, every church, and every good citizen
should endeavOr to create a public SEN
timent that will crush out this traffic,
and to do this every one should bid the
others God speed in any effort, even if
not just in the line of their view of what
is the best way: one thing is sure, the
rum power will not be oVerthrown in
any other way in such places as this.
Yours, S.